OK: let me spell something out here... Peruse the following code and I'm going to add line numbers so I can point to specific lines in my follow up explaination. 

1. sub processFile {
2.        my ($dir,$node,$someNumber)=@_;
| 
| handwaving. 
}

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First let me comment that the array @_ contains all arguments passed to the sub. The code I just supplied is the equivalent to: 
1, sub processFile { 
2.    my $dir=shift;  #@_ is implied!
3.    my $node=shift;
4,    my $someNumber=shift;

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I'm not sure what you thought you were accomplishing by referencing $_[0] given that refers to the scalar in the array with the lowest index. You needed $_[0] to have a "/" and $_[1] concatenated.

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In reply to Re^3: Correct pathway to a file by blue_cowdawg
in thread Correct pathway to a file by Dr Manhattan

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